Children living on the streets and those subjected to child labour have expressed the sentiment of being treated as the stepchildren of Namibia as they are often excluded from child and youth spaces and programmes, and have no access to information, opportunities or justice.
This year, as we celebrate the Day of the African Child under the theme ‘Eliminating harmful practices affecting children: Progress on Policy and Practice since 2013’, we recall the 16 June 1976 uprising in Soweto, South Africa, where high school pupils protested against apartheid-enforced Afrikaans as the medium of instruction.
The Windhoek City Police has raised concern over motorists who knowingly and unlawfully use fake number plates and duplicated numbers on more than one vehicle.
The Deputy Minister for Industrialisation and Trade, Verna Sinimbo has urged for a well-balanced multilateral trading system that she says should promote trade in a manner that redresses the imbalance in the share of world trade between developed and developing countries.
Kangaroo Empire CC, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture in the Zambezi region, will host the region’s first ever education and career expo from 1 to 6 August 2022.
Small-scale horticulture producers in the Kavango West were recognised and given awards for their hard work and efforts.
Mortgages charged at 9% will increase to 9.5%
Home Loan Old instalment New instalment Difference
N$1 million N$8 997.26 N$9 321.31 N$324.05
N$1.5 million N$13 495.89 N$13 981 N$486.08
N$3 million N$26 991.78 N$27 963.94 N$972.16
Chaos erupted on Tuesday evening when a group of people who were evicted from a Wanaheda compound allegedly resorted to vandalising the entire compound.
The overall value of all Namibia’s public enterprises, including their assets, is approximately N$132 billion. This is a massive figure, considering the country’s gross domestic product is roughly N$160 billion. Out of this figure, 22 commercial public enterprises account for more than half of the total at about N$80 billion.
Angola’s Vice President, Bornito de Sousa Baltazar Diogo, yesterday arrived in Namibia to undertake a four-day working visit intended for consultations with his Namibian counterpart, Vice President Nangolo Mbumba.